Grind Caving Camp 2018 exploration camp

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This is the 7th exploration camp organized by us in this alpine vertical cave, Avenul de sub Varful Grind (-544m, 950m).

This year, the exploration camp will take place between 8.09.2018 and 16.09.2018.

There are three kinds of activities:

1. Materials transport between cavers shelter and Poiana Grind in the last day of the camp. Aprox. time between these points is: 3h. (The cave should be already rigged in the previous camp that starts on 1st of September).

2. Support
The cavers that will work underground for several hours or days will need when they’ll get outside hot food, water, accu charges etc.

3. Underground team member
The teams that will enter in the cave will rigg, survey, climb and they will evacuate outside the trash found on several places from the old expeditions. We are also trying to push through the new passages discovered in 2017 expedition. (see the attached map).

Targets:
• Surveying the canyon that starts at the bottom of Water Shaft, climbed in 2016 by Fabian Botond and Alexandru Pologea;
• Pushing further in the new passage explored in 2017, Himalaya 2;
• Checking other "question marks";
• Continuing the digging at the actual terminus;
• Cave greening.